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The 2024 International Day of Plant Health is attracting shining light on the importance of leveraging innovation to protect plants by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), reports NaijaAgroNet.
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Osinbajo commissions $1.5bn fertilizer plant
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has commissioned $1.5
billion fertilizer plant in Nigeria city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, reports
NaijaAgroNet.
The fertilizer plant, NaijaAgroNet gathered was built by Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals
Limited at the cost of $1.5 billion, with production capacity of 4000 metric
tons (MT) of nitrogenous fertilizers per day or 1.5 MT per annum.
NaijaAgroNet
also reports that the acting President used the opportunity to remind all
Nigerians that time has come for them to grow whatever they eat and produce
whatever they consume.
“What Indorama is accomplishing today is very much in line
with President Buhari’s vision for a country that produces what it consumes and
grows what it eats. If you had to sum up our vision for the Nigerian economy in
a few words, these would suffice. Grow what we eat, produce what we consume,”
he said.
Prof Osinbajo commended Indorama for keying into the
Presidential Fertilizer initiative which President Buhari launched last year to
make fertilizers cheaper nationwide.
“At the end of last year, the President launched a
Presidential Fertilizer Initiative, to ensure the availability of cheaper
fertilizer to our farmers, to support what we’re doing in agriculture, in the
production of rice and wheat and other staples.
“That Fertilizer Initiative, now well underway, has created
significant economic opportunities for companies like Indorama Eleme Fertilizer
& Chemicals Limited.
“I have been informed that Indorama will this year alone
supply about 360,000 Metric Tons of Urea to Fertilizer blenders, which, in
turn, will produce NPK fertilizer for the benefit of farmers across the
country.
“This is the kind of economic progress we’re after, in which
every unlocked opportunity proceeds to unlock several others, across multiple
sectors of the economy.”
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